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Work hard and get your own.

• petsfed 2y ago
  That's how the labor class does it. My point is that investment purchasers are steadily pushing residential purchasers out of the market. What happens when its simply impossible to accrue via labor, in a single lifetime, enough wealth to buy that first home?
• burnished 2y ago
  Hard like the people that got it cheap? Or hard like the people that inherited such things? I guess you can fuck off to the sticks, but I'm not sure that works as a defense for a society that has made an element of participation contingent on absurd expense or debt. Does 'work hard' feel good when the thing you purchase with your labor is expensive in order to service the desires of the wealthy? I'm not going to say our current setup is indentured servitude or serfdom, it clearly isn't and social mobility and changing your station are possible and even commonplace. I will say that our current system has resulted in a large class of people whose productive excess is routinely paid to a small group for the benefit of being allowed access to a residence (they don't provide other services or benefits, they don't actually labor to produce the house as a finished good).